2011–Dad & Lad Road Trip–Dads Blog 22/4 Day 1

Stage 1 Home to Aberystwyth

We left about 10:45 and started west. The weather was great, mood was too,

Planned to stop at the end of the motorways, but did not find anywhere sensible, so we stopped at Welshpool.

Welshpool

A very pleasing little town, but not what i expected.

A nice Railway station, if you like these things and a canal. The town was bedecked in bunting, but little else. We walked around for an hour.

We parked in Morrisons, had a walk and got some food, before we hit the road again

Devils Bridge

I came here as a kid with my parents, we did it on the train.

We parked up and started the short walk to the bridges. A loud clap of thunder, a few big spots of rain.

We looked around and got back to the car just in time, Heavy Rain.

We left Devils Bridge for the short drive to our nights stay in

Aberystwyth

Savannah House

We found the B&B, looked ok. No one in, so rang the owner who said he would be here in 10 minutes.

Checked in and was shown our room.

Now the first thing I do is turn the potage stamp sized telly on, I did and got sound only, went and got the guy who let us in, ooops its broken after a quick call to the boss, so we changed rooms and got room 3 instead of room 2.

Now Room 3 is at the front, 2 is at the back. 2 has en-suite, 3 does not, but is a larger better room, and the telly worked!

Ed was relaxing on his single bed and spotted a few issues with the room, however we stayed in it. This is real bonding!

After an hour chilling and trying to get the internet working, we went for a walk around the sea front.

It is quite nice and picturesque.From the end of the pier

North/South

We walked along the front, down the pier walked to Wetherspoons. Now finding that was a challenge, but came across a helpful bobby, who was window shopping (sorry patrolling) the town, who pointed us the right way. The old saying of never finding one when you need one, did not come true today and the other old saying did.

When you don't know what to do ask a friendly man in blue! View of the pub from the “End of the Line”

We ate and went back to the room for sleep, tomorrow is a whole new adventure.

I managed to get my network connection working so I could post this stuff!!!!